ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an approach by considering the role of learner awareness in the teaching and learning of second or foreign language listening and speaking. It takes reference from the definition of language awareness and its application in the adoption of "a pedagogic approach that aims to help learners to gain such insights". The chapter also takes the view that different components of language sub-systems are closely connected in the construction of meaning and that language awareness is "inseparable from text awareness". It provides the meaning of 'text' is synonymous with 'discourse': stretches of spoken language uttered in context. Discourse awareness underscores the principle that the production and comprehension of spoken language is a social and cultural act. The chapter presents macro and micro features of natural spoken language, moving from general characteristics of speech and the patterning’s of spoken texts produced in particular social contexts to micro features of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
